Gang of vehicle thieves busted in Chandigarh

Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, August 16

The police have busted a gang of vehicle thieves, who had a penchant for e-rickshaws, and arrested two of its members.

The police recovered 14 e-rickshaws and a battery of an e-rickshaw from their possession.

The police said with their arrest, they had solved 12 cases of theft reported from Sector 17, 26, 19, Sarangpur, Mani Majra, IT Park, Mauli Jagran and Maloya police stations.

The suspects have been identified as Deep Singh, alias Deep (30), a native of Bihar and presently residing in Lalru, and Jinder (24), a native of Jalandhar.

Deep is the gang leader, while Jinder does the ground work in the targeted area. The gang, active for the past two years, used to commit the crime during midnight hours.

During investigation, it came to light that Deep was earlier confined in the Ambala jail in an auto theft case where he met another accused Dheeraj and they became good friends. Later, another accused, Sonu, also met them and he became their friend. All of them later formed a gang and opened a shop of selling/purchasing/repairing old e-rickshaws in Ludhiana. Jinder was looking after the shop and Deep, along with Dheeraj and Sonu, used to steal e-rickshaws from Chandigarh and take these to a godown in Ludhiana, the police said. The accused are in police remand.